Eric Gottesman

@forfreedoms #forfreedoms @wideawakes #SuddenFlowers

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@yatreda @SamSpratt @havner @joeyldotcom @fewocious @calebleeadams I see you @fewocious !!

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Sudden Flowers # 78
from “Sudden Flowers”
by
@EricGottesman
in collaboration with Sudden Flowers

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Sudden Flowers # 41
from Sudden Flowers
by @EricGottesman in collaboration with Sudden Flowers

Explore more on @AssemblyCurated

https://t.co/8eSow23be1

[Shane Lavalette @shanelavalette]

This collection of collaborative works by @EricGottesman / Sudden Flowers is deeply moving and speaks to the real power of photography. I encourage everyone to spend some time with it today. Wow.

https://t.co/hN5Bqdrx5q

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Don’t miss the "Sudden Flowers” collection on @AssemblyCurated, a powerful project by @EricGottesman in collaboration with Sudden Flowers, an art collective of young people in Addis Abba, Ethiopia.

https://t.co/5h82Kr04Jj

[Shane Lavalette @shanelavalette]

Such a great conversation... very powerful to listen to @EricGottesman and Sudden Flowers members talking about experiences of making together, the role of photography in processing grief and trauma, imagining the future, and the beauty of collaboration.

https://t.co/wmjvtpB3Vb

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🕐 1 DAY UNTIL "SUDDEN FLOWERS”
"Sudden Flowers is only Book One of this project. It is my history, my childhood. I want to share it with my kids when they grown up. We have to keep telling our stories because we keep living our lives." - Yamrot Alemu of Sudden Flowers

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Join us!

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https://t.co/aOuypJr0Wg

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Banded Passport Pictures, 2004. @AssemblyCurated

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This sounds so old-timey now. But the (relatively recent) idea that subject and photographer could be on relatively equal footing in the creation of photographs bucked over a century of colonial-inspired photography. Hard to imagine now that everyone is subject and photographer.

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When this project started, only photographers had cameras. I didn’t have a cell phone. I used Polaroid positive-negative film (yes film!) which allowed photographer and subject to see the image at the same time. That was radical in 1999!

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General is Kissing the Girl, 2004. Photograph by Tenanesh Kifyalew. @AssemblyCurated

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We published #SuddenFlowers with @FishbarBooks in 2014, launching in London and at @AddisFotoFest. Before it was published, I circulated 10+ drafts among members of the collective. It took us 15 years to publish. It was worth the wait.

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In 2006, after showing the work of #suddenflowers in #addisababa, we decided to tour it around Ethiopia in a traveling coffee ceremony called #AbulThonaBaraka. We showed pictures, talked with audiences and served coffee in small towns, cities and villages.

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Yawoinshet, 2003. Woini is an incredible teacher to me and so many others. She introduced me to a group of kids living together in Addis Ababa in 1999 after their parents died of AIDS, and that is how #SuddenFlowers began. We worked together for over a decade. @AssemblyCurated

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Sudden Flowers Exhibition. British Council, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 2000.

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In advance of the #SuddenFlowers NFT with launch @AssemblyCurated this week, I’m thinking back on all our exhibitions together over the years, including my first ever photo show in #AddisAbaba City Hall in 2000. Also the first exhibition about HIV/AIDS in Ethiopia.

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Join me and Sudden Flowers on @AssemblyCurated Twitter Spaces tomorrow to hear about our long-term collaboration in a neighborhood in #AddisAbaba #Ethiopia. We are launching NFTs of this project to add to the conversation about who gets to participate in new digital spaces.

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Don’t miss the drop of "Sudden Flowers” on Assembly Curated.

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2022
11:11 AM EST

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